Some grid security interventions ‘commercially motivated,’ LaFleur contends

摘要

Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur last week poked at proposals to compensate generating resources, such as coal-fired plants, that struggle to compete with natural gas in wholesale power markets. Speaking at the North American Gas Forum sponsored by Energy Dialogues on October 15, the commissioner said that cheap and plentiful gas supplies, and the ability to quickly build gas-fired generation, had helped make gas the generating fuel of choice in some parts of the country. That has led some coal and nuclear generators to seek market rules to compensate them under the rubric of grid resilience, she said.